Friday, February 27, 2015

Kifah Hanna presents new trends of unique, even radical, literary representations of gender and sexuality as mediated by the Lebanese civil war. She investigates literary expressions of love and desire by examining subordinate masculinities as a novel venue for such inquires.

Kifah Hanna is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, CT. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Her research and teaching interests broadly include twentieth and twenty-first
century Arabic literature especially women's writings; more specifically gender and sexuality, war literature, world literature, postcolonial theory, film studies, and cultural studies. Her book manuscript The Aesthetics of Levantine War Literature: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.

Kifah Hanna is applying for the tenure-track position in Arabic Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Asian Languages & Literatures.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRA) is pleased to announce a fellowship program to conduct field research in India during the summer of 2015.

Our research program seeks
to understand the diversity of livelihood systems in rainfed areas and
the role of public investments in enabling adaptive responses that lead
to improvements
in well-being and human development.

We invite post-baccalaureate students
anywhere in the world to apply for the fellowship and contribute towards
this exciting research agenda.

We seek innovative proposals which seek to undertake research on one or more themes:

The fellowship will start on June 1, 2015 and culminate on August 14, 2015.
The fellowship will cover basic living expenses for the duration of the
program as well as travel
to and from field sites within India. Fellows will also be provided
logistical support in the field sites for housing and local travel
through our partners.

Each fellow will produce a paper based
on the research conducted during the fellowship to be published as part
of our working papers series. We also hope to curate edited volumes or
special journal issues based on
this body of work.

The applications are now open for the RRA Summer Fellowship program. The deadline is March 9, 2015. We will notify the results on or before March 30, 2015.

Date:
02/19/2015
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMPlace: 425 Blegen HallDescription:
Sinem Casale, assistant
professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University,
focuses her research on the history and visual culture of early modern
Islamic courts (Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals), with a special focus
on issues of exchange, materiality, gift-giving practices, courtly
rituals, and picture theory. Prof. Casale received a PhD from University
of Minnesota in art history, with a thesis, "Gifts in Motion:
Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange." Based on that study, her current
book project investigates the ceremonial exchange of gifts between the
Ottoman and Safavid courts, and explores the potential of objects to act
as agents in diplomatic negotiations.

What
is tantric Buddhism, and how did it spread across Asia? The MIA’s
collection includes exceptional works of Buddhist art from the regions
of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas that document how tantric
Buddhism spread north from India to Nepal and Tibet and east to
Cambodia. Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, the George P. Bickford Curator of
Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will show
how these two regions interpreted Indian esoteric Buddhism in widely
divergent ways. She will also show art from neighboring regions where
tantra was not as widely accepted to present a broad picture of how
Buddhism took hold, developed, and flourished after its mysterious
demise in India, the land of its birth, during the13th century.

Prior
to joining the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
was curator of Asian art at the San Diego Museum of Art. A graduate of
Smith College, she earned her PhD from Harvard University; her
dissertation was published as History of Early Stone Sculpture at
Mathura, c. 150 BCE–100 CE.

NOTE:We are experimenting with ways to again begin
creating new titles lists.As in the
past, these are in order by call number but, because of the way the records are
displayed in our system, the title comes first.I am happy to receive comments, suggestions, corrections, etc.

The literary
thing: history, poetry, and the making of a modern cultural sphere.Rosinka Chaudhuri. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2014)

Ames Library PK1708.C43 2014

Of ghosts and
other perils: selected stories of Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay.Translated from the Bengali with a
biographical foreword and a critical afterword by Arnab Bhattacharya. (New Delhi:
Orient Blackswan 2013.)

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The UCLA Center for India and South Asia announces the Sardar Patel Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India in 2014. The amount of the award is $10,000.

The dissertation must be on any topic on Modern India (the dates of Modern India are defined as 1800 to the present).

The topic must fall within the following fields of study: History, Social Sciences, Humanities, Education or the Fine Arts.

Dissertations submitted for consideration will have been completed during the 2013-2014 academic year (1 September 2013 through 31 August 2014). In some cases dissertations completed very close to these dates may also be considered.

The dissertation must have been written while enrolled at a U.S. accredited university in history, anthropology, sociology, literature, political science, or one of the other disciplines in the humanities, the arts, or the social sciences.

Applicants must submit ONE bound hard copy and one PDF of their dissertation. In addition, please send the following as PDF files: ONE copy of an abstract of 500-1000 words, ONE copy of your curriculum vitae, and a letter from their dissertation supervisor or department chair attesting to the completion of the dissertation during the period stipulated in item #3 (this is not a recommendation letter).The deadline for submission of materials has been extended to include items postmarked by February 28, 2015. Submissions should be sent to:

Note: Dissertations will not be returned. By submitting their dissertation for consideration, candidates also agree to have their dissertation abstract posted on the CISA and Sardar Patel Association websites. The winner will be expected to attend an award conferral ceremony in Los Angeles in spring 2015 and is also expected to acknowledge the Sardar Patel Association in any publications related to the subject matter of the dissertation.Inquiries regarding competition guidelines should be directed as follows: